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steve@oceania.com (Steve Dakin) writes:

>In article <1992Mar27.064240.29696@acsu.buffalo.edu> fly@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul  
>D. Fly) writes:
>> 
>> I've been thinking of, and coding a little, a program to generate words
>> in a fantasy language.

>There was an article I read recently in the Journal of Computer Game Design  
>where the author took a large set of words and formulated relationships between  
>each letter and the letters that followed it.  Then by picking a random number  
>and using it as an index into a percentage chart for each letter, a following  
>letter can be determined.  Two other considerations were word length and  
>testing for expletives.  The algorithm worked quite well once the letter  
>associations were set up.  If you get a parser working, you can feed in any  
>language and essentially 'teach' the system what language you want it to  
>'speak'.  The algorithm was further improved by using longer than single letter  
>associations, but this begins to get complicated.

>If anyone's interested in the article, email me and I'll see if I can dig up  
>the issue it's in.

>Steve

Also, try Rick Decker: 'Data Structures' (don't remember year'n'stuff);
There's a long chapter devoted to the TRAVESTY program, which takes any text
as input and generates nonsense that 'feels' right out of it. Good Read.

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